Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1920 — Page 2
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THK INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. SA TODAY. SEC EMBER 25. 1920.
DM OF GOOD CHEER THROUGHODI STATE
Continued frwn Page One. ncogrram wan the achooln preaeotina Jaru-eH. and a Cbrinfma* tableau The cMidnuj uilt »>ound of mixed nuts, ut of a pound of candy, an oranx* and a bana?>a. Hired of woolen were also oiatriLuted, <5or»lo« Children** Home a tree, lierhted a^d loaded »fU. greeted the thirty five Toy* and rift* had been 4« the* home by residents of the t'minfy Itifirwary and at the ity JaH. special Chrtwtm** dlnwerr served the inmat**
n<»M mh« \trr *% «%io»e*cic.
However, €l»*i*#*»** a* %l»*eie
Happily •> lepra ted. (Special to tlK JndlxnapeB*
HI Ni-IK. *t»d . Hecenjber 2»^ 9 in spite of »h* fact that many of the local factor!e* have been shut down for several W"*fc**. the social service bureau, file MalvaMon Army and „ H*-r charity orraalxations reported comparatively few ca*e* of poverty «r distress thia <Th fist mas. The Kal-
at ion Army made its customary dts*
on of <*hris*mas- b
cooisah food for a ra«sl
Thomas Hiatt. J ,«r J K
tritmtion
containinx ■■■■■■■■■ for ten yvrmmu, mmt various societies ,4<«d clubs cared for the inmates of me l ouniy , Infirmary, the County Home for Children and other unfortunates, Hpeoal fhrlsima* dinner* were served to prisoners In mIrrlawarr. <'o«nty /*» by fiheriff
loeal manufacturing
Cornpatdes diatributrd a trout
tn ctirtst rna* pauses to employ*#, tout tbd indo»trisi deprrasion reeufted in-the omisaion of most of these this year, although * few concern* mad*
Horn* cash aifts to workmen. Here and th#r* were Indication*
fhai prohibition was rurl prohibiting sbsolMtcly on fTiristmaa ev«. but as compared with the saloon day* (hear were of little ^consequence. Hhopliftinp and other forma of thievery were not as pronounced a* in some y JHincf* btiaihesi hatf**# closed last nipbl for two days, 1# did ail courts save city court and ail public office*
SUMMER MEAT PACKING. ONCE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE. ORIGINATED IN INDIANAPOLIS PLANT FIFTY YEARS AGO
George W. Stockman, a Hoosier. the inventor of. the Process '. •; --’i ' r - ' That Made ChtiHng of Pork and Beef Possible—He Was Employed at Ktngan*s and Conducted His First Expertmerits There in an Upstairs Room. Where He Used a Vat to Make His Refrigerating Tests,
fJarato P. Dana) “Wha* Indiana, invention ha* b?Vr, pf the t**n*f|f to mankind!^' ahked a ithQoaoptrrr of * irropp wf Ikiwanians who were diseusainff ' Krno w your cily.** ••Tbat easy.” answered <*nr, ‘The invention of the automobile by i: I wood Hayner. with its lo#feffi dvrc.'ltoprhent. has had an effect, on life that its almowt beyond comprehensiort. - ^ ' "So «K»uhi of tbai,“ said another; “but perhaps , the rmiiosopher has eoinetmuff op his si ewe. There have Lee-u seveni very importatit inven--tiottn im Indiana. The OaHinx ffnn was invented here, ami it. with Its development*, ha* had a serious ef-
Kdinoti*!*
fiOVKH.VOtl JAJIKH P. tlOOOrilCil.
(ffRIMTHAff AT MHFOHHATOHV. WNI Inmate* ICnJoy Motion Pleinre*.
Wunbv nnd n ffpeeinl tHnaer.
'< (toped *1 4o The l«i»iiMiapui>* Krw# J JEPKKmiiifiiVlLLK^Ind., Itecember 2&,-—Hiffbr BgodTAd ‘'Inniai** of the Indiana Heformatory her* en-
fw-f) mol Inn piciUff nfhtWM thl* a# a part of ih* observance
# This partrait of Governor James P. Goodrich, of Indiana, was painted by Way man Adams, Indianapolis arti*t. The picture is to be placed in the Capitol bufldin* in the gallery of r*ortrails of Indiana Governors. Mr, Adam* has painted four other portrait* that hang in the gallery, those of J. Frank Hanly, Samuel Ralston, Thojnas R. Marshall, and Winfield T. speaker
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Hway. Thwt wan
dikc<jvK».ry. '“interrupted a third. ‘Uf course it was: but Edison was livlnff In Indlanaoolhi when he %va* workinff on it. He boarded at the old Vattlnon houfie. In Alabama street, tuet »!>o%> Market, when the widow H am j If bn kefft.lt; and a man who boarrd there at the lime told ro* that they all thought be was cranky when he said he dMdieved It wu* poaaitole to send . two telefframa the same wire, at the same time
STORY OF WOMAN S HEROISM AND PIONEER DOCTOR’S DARING TOLD
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If made some exper
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joyed tWO
forfffioo
M Cbrlatma* A of the *n-
Iwitriiinoatat mu»b
institutimi
r mawu inoUided
l Off, cyan her
r»,-ffr*vy. bread * ound U»ff* of hi*
candy wof* d^t.rjt»uted . - --:
Christ in u* »*rvb *« tn p _
*<l pork,
Uce. apand cof - iffh qttaito ih»{
tartalatntfH wa* . and oil* fluff, by
quartet.
The dinner oyster dr**»i
pie#, potato**,- . fee, Half-pound ity candy were inefl In quarteff*,
will be held In Hie chapel Bunday mornin*. Chriatmua ufurnoon and Manday will he tpent by the men in their cell* „r quart*** to «tve aa many offlc«*ra*a* po»*ibl« time with
thHr fainHi**. ,
Mheriff Henry thiffan had only four Inmate* In the county Jail and he announced they should huv* for Christmas dinner ’ everythtnv the law permit*." He expected to ffive them liberal proviaion from his own table. Includlnff turkey. pork, oysters, cranberries, mine* pie and
other r'hrtstma* dellcaclr*.
Many orffaniaationa and many Individual* remembered the needy orphan* and widow*. One man i<ot n limit of thirty-three orphans In needy clrcumatanc** and collected a truck load of article* for their aid and pJewure,, which h« distributed
iriatmak morninff,
VffiB of fmmm utirmcTKO.
Otbernlse the Fwatlvlll** at Orrea-
ea*«le nre np to fftandar*. (Hpectal to The fndtitnTipolIm New*)
HItEIINCABTI.H, Ind.. December 25. —U*ual Christmaa festivities were Held Hi the public. Inatltutlons of < irrencastl* and Putnam county. The high price pf turkey haa prevented many famines from enjoyinr this
however. The usual btsr mas trees are the deliffht of
the children at the Methodist Chll-
’s Home here ami the Putnam Orphans' Home south of the
was more deeply impressed on wage- i earners. i ^ ]
■i* ' ■ ■suwsi law ww-
FOUR rHlbORRk WAITY.
T0y*, < rnnAirm. Frewents and .Smtm
■' tllslrttmied at Fvaaevttte. ’*«# ; , iSpedsl !o The tndtmapohe New*! EVANt<V11d/K. ind.. i ^c-miM-i
—-The r wctfi v-f****rto annual < hrlaima* tree and iSSlat^SlSiwK for tlu; r poor children of th* cih w** fftyfib
r * | •• • fill* Cour
coliseum.
for three hour* and about 2.»*0 ehll-
la, effi
1AW PREVENTS GAS RATE RAISE, ASHBY CONTENDS
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GEORGE W. .STOCKMAN'.
ov**r the name wire, at the aame time, building that the first summer pack Blit What is yout answer to your ln«r in the world was done. ; conundrum?” he inquired of the first “They had In their employ *
-r. fCoosier. George W
... Oevelopateai of Frwe**.
I have been looking into the devel- we H-known principles of phyaics, rv^y. Wrl«i ffL-ntntlnn that it opment of meat-packing, and 1 have which were that cold air is heavier 1 ^tn^f th« areatof the Jhnnt rone»uded that the artiflcia! lhan warm ami that anything nroduced. One of the greatest or m,
about concluded that tne aruriciai wiU e0ol more in a cUr rent of chilling of meat is perhaps the most air than in ^ui air—that is why evboneflcial and the most extensive in erybody is cooler when there Is (a >t» •«,«• -V.h.n- m ,K. .in. .U«5h,.,
of the idea, and gave Stack man every facility for trying it. He began his
Stockman himself made some expert ments in that line, and took out three native or four patents. It was only a few
»too sir r. iieorge w. Btockman. His years until refrigerator o* 11 *** * middle name was 4 Washington, and rooms on ocean ves*eIs artlfIcial ice he was of an old ^Dearborn county Plants, cold ^P a 0 * , ;t lA ,l r " , L u f t ^
altogether certain but femfiff. Stockman conceived the Idea that Hortofthing came'as the re*ults
‘ of Joking tera^rmurs by^utilisinff °^. t ^ t he*e /re only the visible evl-
tces of the social revolution produced. One of the greatest
world’s problems is the distribution of food products, for the world has to be fed every day. It is something Worth consideration that you can inghter an animal in Indianapolis. and deliver it ss fresh meat in London But the export business is
[Special to The Indianapolis News I
SALEM, Lad.. December 25.—The story of a pioneer woman’s heroism, of the gift she made tq medical science through her fortitude and her phyical endurance and of the skill and courage of a surgeon of more Hoar a centqfy ago. who braved the ridlcql^ of his peers by unhesitatingly performing an operation then unknown to the mediea! world, was brought tO ,i light here recently through the visit of some medical students (rom Hugh Medical College at Chicaffo. who. in their study of the history of tumors, found that the woman who had first sbmitted to an operation for ovarian tumor, in
ISO*, was buried in Salem.
They came here to learn more of her history, visited her grave, making photographs of it for the, college's records, and appealed to the Washington County Medical Society to mark the grave with a bronia tablet; with a brief story of the Ciu?e. so thju it might be preserved for
futura generations.
Worn** Was Mr*. Crawford. The. woman whose courage made
possible '5* new Held of *ba«|olnal surgery, and who, aqpordlng’, to a comment- made by the famous Dr. Peas lee. has saved womankind from much suffering and has added, many years to her active life, was Mrs. Crawford, a member of one of the piqneer families her#, and a woman of great strength of mind. The surgeon was Dr. Kphraim McDowell, at that time the leading surgeon west of the Alleghenies, who lived at
Danville. Ky.
I>r. McDowell was called to see the woman, who had been told by plp^icians near at hand that nothing could be done for her. According to his own brief account of the case, which was found iu the Electric Itepertory and Analytical Review, published in Philadelphia in 121*. he made the examination and determined that there was no course but
an operation.
"Having never seen or heard of an attempt or success attending any of>eration such, *s this required.” he wrote. T gave to the unhappy woman Information of her dangerous situation, She wa* willing to sndergo the experiment, which I promised to perform If she would come to Danville. And. with almost superhuman endurance she made the Journey to Danville on horseback, the only mode of travel which was prac Ucable, taking but four or five days
for the arduous trip.
invention from Indiana.” •T thought that originated at
Chi-
CO.” - - -xp#riment, I. IMS. .„<! ttf., #m “ ,M 40
"bike enough Chicago ha* claimed pack on a commercial basis was made JAa «> 00 nound*
to alter any existing r srhe<lure*. apd under this c
* it. but it began right here in Indiana
ate* and ! l»oM». at Kitigan’a pork house. There iffuse the } is only one place where I have been
dren received toys, present*, candle*, nut# and many other thing*. It was the largest affair of it* kind that the Courier ever attempted and nearly *3.000 wa* raised by the newspaper
through public donations.
Beniamin Souse, mayor of Evansville and president of the Courier pany.
Publishing Company, wa*. m^ter of # nr( . ts
ceremonies and the work was gn charge of Howard if. Butler, msTnager of the circulation of the Courier, who ha* filled this position every Christmas for the last twenty-four year*. A choir of eighty voices provided music at the entertainment. He vers 1 P special vaudeville and musical stunt* were given and after the show Banta Claus appeared In the per sort of Waiter V. Wunderlich, clerk of the hoard of public work*, who ha* as-
re
Trade
Street Railway Company above the is in rthe rate of six tickets for cent* fixed ; Board of
by the franchise or contract with the-I copied part of it, and it says th* city, under which it operates. Kingan A Co. have made extensive
anil ».\npnRive nrenarations for orose-
MltUation Different, He
More than 23,000.
000.000 pounds of meat were produced in the United State* in 191*. but more thnn 20,000,000,000 pounds o? that were consumed in the United States. That mean* that a great deal of fresh meat wa* eaten at points where it would not have been avallbut the refrigerating
tmet a | )OUt ten by twelve feet, and two or process. It would be Impossible to
three feet deep. Through thla Wrora
in the summer of 12T1. Nothing Like It Now.
"There la nothing like his apparatus In use now. In a room on the
port of the Indianapolis
ade for January I, 1*72. top floor of the building he had a vat
gamed this rote for many year*. Every child who passed by the big Chriatma* tre« wa* logded down with
. .v>Lg
luxury. Christ m
the « dren'
"aunty
The chi Wren- were Addressed by
Mayor Bo**e. who spoke of the slgfilfleanc* wnd meaning of Christmas. Mr. Butler for several year* past ha# provided the Christmas entertainment for the children at the Children's Guardians' 1 Home, the white and colored ori'lmn asylums, the colored children’s nursery, and one or two organisation*. Most of the*.* were visited hag Mr. Butler* Santa Claus Friday tdghl and remembered with presents
and many othor nice thing*. Fred Oslage. chairman of the com-
mittee of Funkhouser Post. American Legion, arranged for the Christina# entertainment of the former soldiers in the Marine Hospital, Roehne camp, ami the Southern Hospital for the Insane. Thg men at the Boehmcamp were taken to the Marine Hospital and were entertained by a Jaa* orchestra, a quartet, refreshments and
^ Nay*, j
However, Mr. Ashby points out, the
case is>different with the ga# com-
Th« street railway company set only in Its franchise, and
not in a state lAw, a* is the ease With the ga* company, and there is no law setting a maximum rate beyond which-
street railway fare* may not go. Therefore, Mr. Ashby contend*,
even if the commission should decide that qn emergency exist# in the financial condHion of the gas-company, it would have no right to change the rate now in effect, because that rate
would then have to go above the _ _ «0-oe«t limit fixed by the law for the haUed ’a's 'a pubflc calamity."It wa* t h,, trait r-nnm-j n v’u svtntra,., _ , . .,1 , _ .
and expensive preparation* for
< gtlng their business through the iron pipe*, opening at the top on one rr’Yh-r’." o t i; t t S’„ t ;*pSE: •'**■ ■*<’- to ih -
ponement of the deatl account of the weather.
^rT,»« n , <, «SfcA P ;Jr, ,b »ni,TCT«^ '« »»•> “»■ “» -•-I-.;™-March and November of last year, in tne pipes, it flowed out at the lowThese meats were ice-cured. Their er opening just Uke a stream of
ran or no yom- nn ,h« "Then mere 1* Bomeinmg inai death penalty ort Io*n and across, and opening on the ult j mate consumer has cause to
ather. 'This firm other side. The vat wa* Ailed with ra an vr.,i
product of , ce am , salti an(1 M the air cooled
transfer food animals alive to points of consumption in any such quantities as are demanded for oonsurapbot- tlon." k “Then there is something that the ^^■fi||iM|SBai be
thankful for?
Producer.
Uktsr Market for
‘Not only the consumer, but the
."?•** W tKlii'tSW** yna»w- « <>« » w.,-
product of their winter
—“You can see from the wording of
t
■ to ket comparatively close at hand for to ’kman htl * meat animals, and also a very im-
M 11 the fact that it is
•ginning Thurgday evening, the he* end th# tjUmisy school# of ty held Christmas celebration*. Presbyterian church and the Baptist church held thrlr program*
Thursday evening. Friday evening orchestra, a quartet, refreshment* ami the Locust street church and College the distribution of, individual gifts, avenue church held entertainments. The legion committee also visited the
i Tb# 0r«*nca4ttw mmCL ffittas <*id less ■ m
uuslness thl* year thad inr 1919. WilHsm b. Dsnman. postmaster, said last year two men and two parcel ffdRjftofhgs were u*ed to distribute the ChiTstmas mall. This year one parcel post wagon and two men did • ’""■ k
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KaereUe* Are Me I it on ( ourtkonse
Square at Hartford
Southern Hospital for the Insane during the afternoon and distributed gifts among the former Service men.
Ml NIOPAI. (RIEItHATlON,
City,
lSpecial to The indiaoapoh* New*] HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. December fctV—A municipal Uhristma* celebration waa held here today on the
Courthouse square, ft
A large tr#e arm* the coaler of thaHMRHHMHPHVBHIH « xerclses. Nearly 1,000 children re-^ poor ’childreo of the* city at their cetyed Hack# of candy and nuts, room* Friday night. ■■■■■■■■■■■
\\ ahnsh Poor tiet Peeseut*. t Special to The IndianapolU New#l
WABASH. Ind.. December 25.—Bas-
kfts tilled I’hristma* dtnner«IVPRIPm|HMHPVHMIIViiPV
life of tho gas company’s contract
with ths city.
"T*tnsre has been a- question wo -to w'hethcr. if in the opinion of the commission an emergency doe* exist, the commission w-ould haCe the power to bring to an end the contract between the city and gas company. » If the contract should be kilted, it is pointed out. the commission w'ould then have the power to change the existing rate. Power of Commission.
Howevj
lie
the
"alter, amend, or with *he consent of the public utility concerned, suspend any existing rates, schedules and order reiatibg or affecting any public utility or part of any pabiie utility in this state." This section does not. Mr. Ashby contends, give the commission the power to set aside a contract. If the question as to the legality of an increase in rates is decided fcgaist the city, it is pointed out. thecity would then raise the question of whether the company can show an tmerfgncy rate that would justify the commission in interfering with the existing rate. Mr. Ashby contended in the recent case of the street rall-
ested in pork packing, to
this that the writer realised that his u, and I recall how
readers would doubt that meat could j, eUl a candle In front of one of the portant benefit in
5; ErsKS- k?K=£ *aK£3B3££S
when freezing weather was essential an opening, with a grating, into the packing on an all-year basis. Instead ffiassss. srJKSi •waiSK: TZZZTZ
of chilling ments wa*
farther reaching than the invention
a calamity, too; almost a* much an extensive failure of the corn
where the cold air was blowm into y° u tak€ ‘ as the chill room, by a rotary blower, invention
xjsszvz&ms
is used now. Everything was covered with ffjst. meat, and there are some of us who
remiss 1 Snly* msU^of beVng* clia? * et no *P e<,U1 benefit from the authey looks/like they had been chls- tomobile except the exercise of dodg-
Duys Before t hemiesl Methods. "Oh, no. That was before the daffg of the ammonia and other chemi<|al methods of making ice. The Kingafis were always both enterprising ahd
conservative. They % came here in 18113, processes now used,
and put up what the newspapers of
sled out of marble. It was so cold ing it that I was very willing to get out „ T x ma ,i^ into summer temperature again. “ "But that was not Inventing the Why don t
*
a revolution, all right, you start a movemetft
for the Daughters of the Revolution
to put up a marker?”
*• Y t rva 1 n. U
Operated la Wtlderarmi.
Then, In this little town, on the border of western civilization, far removed from the opportunity of consulting with any on* whose opinions might be of value to him. and almost a thousand miles from the nearest
hospital or college dissecting room, where he might have hail the chance of studying and nractloing, the experiment was tried by Dr. McDowell and proved successful in every par-
ticular.
The use of ether or chloroform was unknown, and the use of local anaesthetic* was practically unheard qf at that time. The operating table waa a long pine bench, scrubbed as clean as soap and water could make it. Only one skilled assistant was present, and two students, none of whom had any Knowledge of the case save as the doctor outlined it to them before
making the incision. Wrote History of Caae.
Dr. McDowell wrote the history df
this case in detail and sent it to Dr. John Bell, the^famous surgeon ok Scotland, his former teacher. But Dp. Bell, who was traveling on the con* tinenk for his health, was never able to return to Edinburgh, and died without so^iujg the hii«tory*mak1ng^ ret port from bis former pupil. Tit* brief sketch in the Philadelphia Electric Repertory and Analytical Re,view in Lilt was the first knowledge that the world In general had of the operation, and a general disbelief in its possibility was voiced by surgeons everywhere. But investigation proved the success of this operation and of two similar one* that followed it. in one of which, performed near the Hermitage in Tennessee. Dr. McDowell had as one of his assistant* General Jackson. The first great tribute to his skill was voired In the London Medio-Uhirurgical Review,
when Dr. James Johnson said: “A back settlement in America,
Kentucky, has beaten the mother country, nay Europe, itself, with all the boasted surgeons thereof, in the fearful and formidable operation of
gastrotomy."
Get* Honorary Degree, Dr McDowell was bqrn la Rockbridge. Va.. but came with his family to Kentucky in 1782, He studied with Dr, Humphreys, of Stauton, Va., and in the University of Edinburgh. An honorary degree of M. D. was conferred on him by the University
of Maryland in 1828.
In addition to Dr McDowell’* great contributions to surgery, he Is al»o known for original work in the treatment of fevers, so prevalent throughout all this section In early day*. Ho was the first to allow the drinking of cold water in fever cases, and the first to make use of the sponge bath and cold pacts which are recognised
everywhere today.
Twenty-five days after the operation was performed on Mrs. Crawford she went to her home in good health. She was forty-seven years of age at this time, and was able at once to take up the active household duties, incident to the rugged life of pionecr days. She lived to be seventy-eight years of age. and died here March
30, 1841.
ALL ABOUT THE RAT; SEE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE BULLETIN NO. 103
fowever. Mr. Ashby says, the pub- P«t up what the newspapers of Led to Experiments. “It might possibly come within the tshr-’rsrs* &SSi53t5S4i ,x~.K os± as -r-SSiSHOS
building burned down in the spring of States There is hardly any inven- n?frcial bodies to put up a tablet at iRiu»r.or;7r.ii“» k "' , p , ?,a m u o ^ ^'•uT.vsmss ";k sl in it—making the most spectacular summer packing was practicable, fne ^ t **?• ^ r ® r * <1 ' °F words to fire that Indianapolis had ever had up various persons at once began trying that effect? What the world needs to to that time. I was a small boy at the' to improve the method. It was com- be taught is that there are other time, but I remember looking at the monly known that cold could be pro- things beside* wars that are worthy tire from my home in the north part duced by rapid evaporation. / Rooks of commemoration in the history of of the city, and the vivid impression on phyflcs that were then in use had civilization. In the lines of business it made on me. The Kingans rebuilt an experiment of freezing mercury in achievement, no city has anything promptly, hut made the new packing a red-hot crucible, by the evaporation more memorable * “ house three stories; and it was in this of ether some other chemicaL has in this.” 4
than Indianapolis
New Books at Library
vat ion Army here last evening. White members of the local Shrine club ami American Legion played Santa Claus
for 528 children.
The Shrlnero gave a special entertainment and presents to - the 226 homeless children at White h Manual !*abor Institute Friday afternoon. The local post of the American Legion entertained and gave present# to 30ft
which were distributed from a truck
fclanta .Claus. A choru*
by
voices, carols.
ted by Elmer'" Lucas.’ f saYis The celebrathm was ar-
ranged by a committee from the Chamber of Commerce. This committee also had charge of the dts-
, Iff
trUmtion of boxes, of clothing and tood to forty needy families Friday
Christmas party for
j. _
The annual \.uria<ruos party ioi needy children was held Friday after noon by the Tri Kappa Sorority. Games were given to the boy* and doll*, which were dressed by the .sorority members, were given to the
girls.
HAVK FLKAftA.NT CHRISTMAS. IV©rid Mar Mew In Nntional Sanatorium at Marion Entertained. ISpeytal to The Indianapolis News] MAUIGN, Ind., December 22».—Fifty world war men in the National Sanatorium here, receiving treatment, had a pieasant Christmas through the efforts of the War Mothers and the Byron Thornburg Dost of the American Legion. A large box. filled with fruit and can# was provided for each man. and In addition there was * Christmas tree and a vaudeville entertainment. The fifty orphan children at the Grant County Orphans Home were entertained by the Kiwants Club at a theatei partyv which took place at the Luna-Lite theater yesterday. The Mdren were taken to the theater the guests of the Marion Theater pany. and each one received it box candy. Prominent business men their stores in the busy holiday son in order to transport the chUto the theater in their ruto-
,
l NlNMITl NATES CARED FOR.
Needy
Famltle* at Anderson— Report Business Big.
to The IndisaapctUs News 1
.'t
December 25.— Anderson were
for Christmas and. beindustriai depression.
larger than «
baskets of
by the probably
>y ot her soindividuals. The vtty spent 3200 >r unfortunate less has been a, year ago. In
heavier,
gifts.
'savings had last few days
spirit
Santa Claus to 400 Children. (Special to The IndianapoU* New#l HAMMOND. Ind.. December 25 — Clayton Mark, chairman of the Steel and Tube Company, was Santa Clau# yesiqrday to 400 children of the steel mill employe* at the community hall of a subdivision of Hammond. He was accompanied from Chicago to the plant by a company of professional entertainers and an elaborate program was given after each child had received a gift of candy and fruit. ft-, • -'-.j, ■ >
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Distribute Substantial Cheer. (Special to The Imhsaspoii* News] CRAWFORDSV1LLE. Ind., December 25.—Christmas baskets were distrlbhted in more than 300 CrawfordsvlUe homes Friday by members of the loot)I lodge of Elks And the girls of the Sunghiaev Society of Crnwfordaviile High School. It has been the custom for these two organizations tUHHiaUy for several years to distribute substantial Christinas cheer in this way on the day Before Christmas. Christum* Dinner For Widow*. (Special to The Indianapolis News] ELWOOD. Ind.. December 25 —The Eagles and Elks' lodges had Christ ft mas trees today and distruhted candy and fruit to several hundred chtldren of the city. Th< Eagles sent baskets contains Christmas dinner* to the widows of all members yesterday afternoon. ■ Elk* Provide tlircr. (Special to The Indianapolis N^wsl NEW ALBANY. Ind., December 25. —New Albany Lodge of Elks distributed more than 160 Christmas baskets Of provisions today to homes of worthy families. At an entertainment at the Elks’ Home large sacks of toys, fruit and candles were distributed to more than 506 children
licfuMcd to Give Cp Kram-hUc. The gas company twice had the opportunity to surrender Us franchise and operate under an Indeterminate permit from the corttm/hsio’n.Jjut tt chosffc to stand t>y its contract. Now. however, it Is petitioning the commission to step In and take action regardless of the city'or th’e franchise
contract.^
At the last occasion when the company was before the commission in a somewhat different capacity it represented to the commission that the < ompany. as far as earning* were concerned, it did not need an increase in gas rates, but that it would need an increase to provide a greater plant for year# to come.
■ ..Iffllll I I "■—n- Hi.. piniiAi I. I.IH.,,.ent Day.” L. L. Dock and I. M- Stew art; “Roamigg Through the West ’Indies,” H. A French; “Our AmeWesV W. D. Frank; “Housing Labor”; "Morale," G. S. Hall; "Some Problems of the Peace Conference,” Haskino and Ldrd; "Fact and Fable in Psychology.” Joseph Jaitrow; '‘Projects in Action English-" F. O, Johansen; "Elements of Physiological Psychology.” Ladd and Woodworth; “Right Royal.” John Masefield; “Strength of Materials,” E. R. Maurer; "Miscellany of Arperican Poetry. 1920"; “Shakespeare for Community Play-
New nonfiction book. .. the IffJgf hrary are: -llancol Asquith." ty Mrs. ..jJ,. A ^ v ~ F N ; PfdBre^l "Hcyoioi Margot Asquith; “Modern American the Horizon,” E, G. O'Neill. “Tour
New book# of fiction at thg Central Library include; “An old Chester Socret,” by Margaret Deland; “Caliban.” w. L (George; "Golden Book of Springfield,” N. \ft Lindsay, “No Defence,” Sir Gilbert Patker; "Leerie,” RUth Sawyer, and • AKe^Of Innocence,"
Edith Wharton. ’ t
Margot Asquith; “Modern American the Horizon," E. G. O'Nei Plays," compiled by G. P. Baker; “A Indiana in HMfiJ* J Frenchwoman’s impressions of Amer- — „ ica." Comtesse Madeline de Brya# ami Recent Speeches of W. G. and Jacqueline tie Bryas; “Accepting ing.” F. E. Shdrtemeter; “Neg the Universe,” John Burroughs; "Au- r ‘—*•’“ w< *’‘ ’ ^ 1
tobiography of Andrew Carnegie"; ".Seif-Government in Industry',” G. D. H. Cole: "Short History of Nursing from the Earliest Times to the Fres-
American the Horizon,”
Baker; “A Through Indiana in 1*40,” John Par- • tons; “Rededleating America: Life
Hard-
, egro Migration During the War. E. J. Scott; "o. Henry Memorial Award": “Flame and Shadows.” Sara Teasdaie;’’“Outline of History." H. G. Welts. ; ' New business branch books are:
Method* of Securing, Classifying and Handling List*, of (’ustomers i
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Possible Buyers.” compiled
Johnson; * 4 Orfifantzation of inaustria! Norton, and “ Statistics in B#iness "
— * —* - - xgsw,* * ;•£!? Mg'tirSLWlJrh ”Si Russian Corporal,” Paul logolevitch; “Sam Lloyd’s Puzzle* - Samuel Lloyd; “Story of a Thousand Tear Pine.” E A. Mills: “Wee Ann? % C. ffwltlps and “Boy# of the World War,” F7 W.
Itolt-Wheeler.
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DIES IN CHURCH.
Retired Farmer Wa# Attending Christ won Eve Sertiees at Thorntowa
(Special to The 1 mil in* noli* Nvws) THORNTOWN. Tnd., December JS.ft-
Frank Hlestand. age seventy-nine, a retired farmer, died of heart disease here Friday night in the Christian church as the congregation was as-
for the Cb'r ,1 -‘‘—-' L
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Son Finds Father Dead When He Coes to Extend His Christmas Greeting
Cochran wear today to the |koate of Frank Cochran, age «fxrty-e%ht, his
extend
iristma* ■ eve
Brigadier George F. Casler. state commander of the Salvation Army, and Captain Ella White, of the Harlev Gibbs settlement, handing: out Christmas baskets in front of the Salvation Array headquarters,
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services. Mr. Hlestand moved here recently from Max. Boone county He i
{Special to The Indianapolis News] El,WOOD, lad., December Vr>.—Boyd
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father, who lived alone, to
Christmas greetings. The father.was dead, his body being ia the bathroom. Asphyxiation was the raaae. The coroner is investigating to determine how the gas happened to he on. CHRISTMAS GEESE STOLEN. John C. Rnekelshans Mourns Visit of
Thief Following Santa.
Christmas wasn't very merry for John C. Uuckelshaus. president of the Columbia Club, for a time today, when he found that thieves had followed Hanta Claus'# visit to his home. 2825 North Meridian street, and had carried away two dressed geese, which were to form the principal part of the Ruckelshaug family's
Christmas dinner.
In addition to the geese, the thieves carried away five pounds of sausage, a tenpound beef roast and eight pounds of pork. •Tve got a line on two morgeese.” Ruckelahaus told Patrolman Fogarty, when reporting the theft, “but rm having a hard time tryinp to find some one to pick them for me."
Good ImsgiBstfoa, (Chicago News)
An American ‘ doing the sights" in Edinburgh arranged with the hotel boy to *how him around the city. It was a hard task to raise any spark of appreciation of the amaent relics in the visitor's mind. Sight after sight the hov extolled, but the American hummed and hawed, (i.-paraying everything compare-* with what they had “on ths other side.” •*what*s that for?” he asked presently, pointing to a pa*#mr vehicle cairylag an enormous bar of iron. A glint came in the juvenile eye as he answered airily: *, •They're budding a new hotel up road rir. and that's the kltrircn poker.”
In view of the rat-killing campaign in Indianapolis, unusual interest detaches to public health bulletin No. 1«3. published by the United States public health service and entitled, "The Rat.’’ The author of the bulletin tells an interesting story of the ways and means by which the little creature of tBe alleys and sewers has remained close to the haunts of man. despite niunerou# obstacles. The brown rat, says the bulletin, is theffmost common specie# and la variously known as the Norway rat. the barn rat. sewer rat, gray or wharf rat. No mention IS made of his being a restaurant rat, thus indicating the author ha? not sojourned in Indlana^Ttats," says the bulletin, “ard notoriously prolific,” with some rat families being augmented monthly by litters averaging eight little rate. The brown r»t in known as the Norway rat, presumably because it once lived In Norway. It blfs become also the barn rat because it prefers fo live in barns, and the sewer rat because it will live In a sewer If It can hot find a barn. Thus the expression, "wiser than a sewer rat.” Just why it should become a^restaurant rat is not clear, although 'the author of ♦*»“ k.,ii«,.i»
throws some
when he writes:’
the bulletin
light on this question _s: “The Norway rat Is
not at all choice In It* preference for
food. It will eat anytning.” Rats are nocturnal in their habit*.
After-theater parties, properly organized. could capture enough rats
between the hours Of 11:30 p. in. and 3 a. m. to pay the war tax on their theater tickets. The best way fo capture a rat is to chase him into the open country where he may be surrounded without danger of his escaping under a building or beneath a
sidewalk.
To exterminate the rat it Is necessary to rat-pfoof buildings, according to the bulletin. To rat-proof a house, the owner need# only to take into consideration ground area*, walls, ceilings, garret, roof, dead space#, ventilators, abandoned sewers, doors, windows, outside piping, water and sewage pipe*, downspouts, wiring and air or light shafts. H<‘ should then hold a conference with a landscape artist, a carpenter, a mechanic, a plumber, a tinsmith And an electrician as to methods of procedure ami probable costs. When thd
plan# devised at thl* conference ar carried out, the rats will starve wit the owner of the house and further
action will be unnecessary.
Houses and other structures should be so bqilt in the beginning as U> discourage the rats. "A nit-proofing law," says the bulletin, "should provide lor floors with not less than three inches of concrete, and a halfIjtOh capping of cement, and for walls with not less than six Inches of concrete.” Standard brands of cement, clean sharp sand and hard stones in proportions of 1;3:3 should be used: he says. It l* estimated, according to concrete and cement figures recently disclosed in New York, that a modest rat-proof dwelling can be erected .for $92,000, and chicken houses and smaller structure* at a
copt not ie## than $40,000.
FEW “MOON FARMERS” LEFT grtewee Replacing Superstition According to Farflae Aathorltfes. [Special to The Indianapolis News] LAFAYETTE, Ind., December 28.— According to the agricultural authorities at Purdue University, the oldfashioned farmer who u*ed to plant hi* crops, shear hi* sheep, butcher and egrry on many of his operations In “the dark of the moon,” l* rapidly disappearing, although many of them can still be found in part* of the state and throughout the middle west. Moon farming began in the middle ages, when the monk* or prieuts, the only men of education at that time, told the people around the monasteries to plant thl* crop or that crop in “the dark of the moon,” or “when the moon was full,” etc. These tradition* wer carried into the middle west by Father Marquette, where the idea was given the Indians. These tradition* have been handed down from father to son, and it has been only ih recent years that the Scientific ideas of agriculture have made much headway in displacing the old Idea*.
JUST CHRISTMAS AT MARION Harding* Open Package* nod Play Host to If«w*p«per Men. MARION, O., December 25.—It was a real Christmas today at the home of President-elect and Mrs. Harding In Mt. Vernon avenue. There were no political conference*—just Christmas Immediately after breakfast at the Harding home Senator and Mrs. Harding began to take a peep at what Santa Claus had been sending for the last two weeks or more. There were literally hundreds of them, ranging from cigarettes to Georgia possums. Not a single present was opened ^The* only company that the future tenant# of the White House expected or had prepared for during the day were half a dozen newspaper men. /They were invited In by Mr. and Mr*. Harding to help eat \he turkey which an admiring friend had sent for the ] Christmas dinner, ■ • *" Donerved a Sb*rp Beproof. (Boston Trans*'niil 1 Alice ought to do well in music. Not only are her parents musical, but she wis * ,0 *Thcn A o/ i wurse. it would B natural for her to make a success.” ■HMMslii
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